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24/7 Wall St. Top Dividend Stories of the Week

Posted: April 28, 2012 at 7:01 am

This was a huge week in dividends, particularly for the key DJIA components.  We had a report calling for more and more dividend hikes of about 8% from the DJIA ...
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Diverging Outlooks on High Dividend Utility Sector (EXC, ETR, AEP, PEG, NVE, CPN, NRG, GEN)

Posted: April 24, 2012 at 8:59 am

The utility sector is a favorite of dividend and income investors.  The group was the best performing group of 2011 as investors snapped up higher dividends rather than Treasuries and ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BAC, CHK, SAM, ERJ, PAA, GE, MCD, KMB, ALK, ALTR, COF, HBI, SNDK, KEY, AEP, CP, CTIC, RCL, PCX, RVBD, RMBS)

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 4:05 pm

Markets opened higher this morning although a decline in tech stocks weighed on the Nasdaq, leaving the index with only a small gain going into the last hour of trading. ...
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The Best Value High-Yield and High-Return Utilities (XLU, EXC, ETR, AEP, PEG)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 6:35 am

The utility sector has been a rather poor performer so far in 2012, as investors have sought growth and less dependence on high payouts, and higher dividend taxes could be ...
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The Top 10 Earnings Remaining This Week (INTC, IBM, JNJ, KO, BAC, MSFT, VZ, AEP, GE, MCD)

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Last week may have been the official start of earnings season, but this week is when the real floodgates for earnings reports will open wide.  Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has ...
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AEP Formalizes Plant Closures, Power Grid Trouble Ahead? (AEP)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 1:13 pm

American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is making its closure plans official.  The power generator and utility has made its notifications to the PJM Interconnection and Southwest Power Pool to retire ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (SHLD, IPG, DNKN, AEP, URI, AES, BCPC, CHTR, CTB, EP, LOW, KWK, RIG, VRX, ATPG, CQP, DNDN, IMI, MVIS)

Posted: February 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Stocks opened down this morning following on weakness in Europe following the G20’s refusal to provide additional funding to the IMF. But at the end of the first hour of ...
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Chasing High Dividends: Utilities Approaching Bargain Territory (AEP, EXC, CEG, PEG, XLU)

Posted: February 27, 2012 at 3:33 pm

2011 was the year of the utility stocks offering investors high dividend yields of well over 4.0%.  2012 has not gone so well for the sector, with 25 of the 34 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACC, AEP, MT, C, DLR, DNKN, GPC, IPG, LHO, SHLD, SGY, TYC, URI)

Posted: February 27, 2012 at 8:17 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Campus Communities Inc. (NYSE: ACC) Raised to Buy at Argus. American ...
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AEP Dividend Growth Still Looks Safe Ahead (AEP)

Posted: February 10, 2012 at 10:15 am

American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is trying to show the all-clear sign and help to assure its dividend investors that it can still grow and can still keep paying ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BBY, SD, ALL, JCP, KIM, AEP, CVX, D, F, HON, PG, SOA, CPHD, INFI, NRGY, RVBD)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

All three major US indexes opened lower this morning following the report that US GDP grew by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. A rise of 3% was expected. Combined with ...
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Argus Making Many Model Portfolio Changes (AEP, WMB, MON, CSX, OXY, WY, PAY, MDU, ICE, HAIN)

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 9:03 am

Argus has made quite a few changes to its model portfolio for 2012 after the first week of trading this year.  The company has broken these out in equity income, ...
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The 2012 Trade: Dump Utilities, Buy Banks… So Far (XLU, XLF, BAC, JPM, AEP, DUK)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 9:22 am

The trade in 2011 was to go out and turn utility stocks into the new investment for retirees seeking income.  They couldn't exactly get any big yield in certificates of ...
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The 24/7 Wall St. 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio (AEP, AWK, T, GE, GOV, KMB, SNH, WMT, JNK, AMJ, AMLP, PGF, MO, DLR, EPD, KMP)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm

It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% ...
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AEP Joins 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio (AEP, XLU, NEE, PPL)

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 9:01 am

American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NYSE: AEP) refuses to falter in the current market despite many headwinds of uncertainty. This is a very defensive play that has very little to ...
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